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Kauai

United States · GDP 2024
#672 of 3,127 US counties by GDP51st-percentile growthmore diversified than 45% of counties
EA Place Score
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methodology in progress
GDP 2024 (USD)
$5.6B
GDP growth
+4.5%
Jobs tracked
27,099
Employers
2,281
Avg. wage
$56.4k
Population
73,400
Labor & formation
Unemployment
2.1%
Median HH income
$97.7k±$5.4k
Business applications
1,143 · 2025

Public companies headquartered here

SEC EDGAR · FMP
CompanySectorRevenueEA

No public companies loaded for this state yet — universe expands with the full ingest.

HQ-based placement with total (global) headcount — local employment attribution needs firmographic data; the industry mix at right is measured county data (CBP).

Industry mix · employment
Food & accommodation37%
Retail trade20%
Admin & support14%
Health care14%
Construction8%
Transportation7%
share of top-6 sector employment · CBP 2023
Population & migration
Census PEP · 2020–2025
73,400
residents · 2025 · +0.3% since 2020
Income per capita $67.2k · BEA 2024
COMPONENTS OF CHANGE · 2021–2025
Domestic migration−1,212
International migration+917
Natural change+469

GDP trend

2019–2024 · nominal
$4.4B
2019
$3.9B
2020
$4.2B
2021
$4.9B
2022
$5.3B
2023
$5.6B
2024

Real estate & risk

FHFA · ACS · FEMA
Median home value
$873.2k±$15.4k
Median gross rent
$1.9k/mo±$78/mo
Vacancy rate
22.4%±1.8%
Affordability
15.5× wages
Residential permits
130 (1.8/1k pop)
FEMA risk score
84.4
HUD Fair Market Rent (2BR):$2.3k/mo · 2026
TOP PERILS · FEMA NRI
Landslide 95Wildfire 93Lightning 84
FHFA HOUSE PRICE INDEX · 2016–2025
448
2016
465
2017
495
2018
524
2019
539
2020
597
2021
703
2022
762
2023
827
2024
820
2025

Transport access

BTS · FAA · USACE
Nearest interstate
172.2 km
I-2
Nearest freight rail
323.7 km
LKPR
Nearest port
15.6 km
STATE OF HAWAII, PORT ALLEN PIER
Nearest commercial airport
27.2 km
LIHUE
Waterborne tonnage, host port(s) (CY2022):2,045,738 short tons/yr · Nawiliwili, Kaua'i, HI
Wage trend
BLS QCEW · 2019–2023
$56.4k
avg. annual pay · +21% since 2019
Similar US counties
nearest by GDP
Sauk$5.6BMadison$5.5BMercer$5.5BHoward$5.5BPutnam$5.5BBlue Earth$5.6B
The read

Kauai's economy produced $5.6B in 2024, growing 4.5% year over year — about the middle of the pack among US counties. Its largest employment sector is food & accommodation.

GDP: BEA (2024), USD-normalized · Jobs/employers/wages & industry mix: Census CBP (2023) · Population & migration: Census PEP · Income: BEA CAINC1 · Companies: SEC EDGAR + FMP, by HQ.
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